Jordan Peele’s third feature as director, Nope, The 3,250 theaters that opened at 4PM last night grossed $6.4M.
That’s a good start for a Peele movie, just 14% off from the $7.4M which his last horror pic, Us, Made in March 2019. The domestic box office opened with $71.1M, making it the biggest opening for an R-Rated horror movie.
Nope‘s previews are well ahead of Get Out‘s $1.8M, which was a movie that audiences discovered in its opening weekend and flocked to, sending its opening to $33.3M.
Contact Us is Peele’s longest movie to date at 2 hours and 15 minutes. The movie’s critical scores on Rotten Tomatoes are, so far, the lowest of his three films, but the numbers are pretty good at 81% next to Contact Us‘ 93% Certified fresh and the Oscar-winning Get Out‘s at 98% certified fresh. Rotten Tomatoes: The Audience Score Nope Current standings are 78% next. Contact Us‘ 60% and Get out‘s 86%.
Nope It is expected to gross around $50M. Given the length of the film, which is typical for horror movies, it may make less. However, this could be due to the ease in the critical response. The film was made for $68M in the Santa Clarity Valley before P&A.
Disney/Marvel’s Thor: Love and Thunder The film was the most popular in regular release Thursday with an estimated $3.8M at 4,375 theatres. This is -15% off Wednesday’s total for a two-week run of $254M. Thor: Ragnarok Comparatively to the same time period.
Universal/Illumination’s Rise of Gru the Minions did $3.6M at 4,114 theaters, -4% from Wednesday for a running three week total of $280.1M, 1.8% ahead of 2015’s Minions Over the same period. Minions It ended its stateside run with $336M
Sony’s Where the Crawdads sing The Thursday performance at 3,650 theaters was $2.3M, which is -8% from Wednesday’s total of $28M for the first week. That’s 31% ahead of the $21.3M first week take of summer weepy The Notebook The domestic box office ended up closing at $81M
Paramount/Skydance’s Maverick: Top Gun At 3,292 gross $1.6M yesterday, which is -4% from Wednesday. This makes it a total of $625.5M for the eight weeks.
Warner Bros.’ Elvis A fourth Thursday saw $1.2M in sales, which was -10% more than Wednesday’s total of $112M.
Paramount’s animated family movie The Legend of Hank: Paws of Fury Yesterday’s posting of $777K was +1.3% to $9.8M for the first week.
